Of course they’re not, Ukraine has zero chance of actually beating the Russian military. I’m on Ukraine’s side on this, but elementary school math here. Unless a major country puts boots on the ground with them, which is unlikely because that’ll start WW3, Ukraine’s only buying time.

Right…Hamas commending Palestinian Christians…SURE!

Yes, I was a lineman, and feel free to quote where I said that PM shouldn’t be done… I’ll save you the time, I never said that. The article blames it being a derogated market as the issue, and that has nothing to do with, and if you ever worked in power you’d know that. Buying power on paper from somebody that’s not the local utility has 0 to do with the local utility doing their job or not.

The company chose not to prepare their infrastructure for cold weather. And they still haven’t done so even after the 2021 disaster.

That’s a preventive maintenance issue, and has absolutely nothing to do with it being a de-regulated energy market, which is what the article specifically states is the reason.

You don’t have to be an electrical engineer to see that the reason this happened is corporate greed, literally putting profits over people’s lives.

Actually genius, profits and corporate greed would keep the system running to keep racking up those kilowatt hours, not letting it fail and losing out on the profits. Do you think before you speak? That’s ignoring that even in a regulated system, profit is still very much part of the equation, so fail again.

Oh no? Feel free to actually dispute what I said then, how long have you worked in the power industry other than not a day in your life.

Please elaborate on how a powerco can provide power during a storm when the infrastructure is destroyed. You’ve clearly figured out the missing key nobody else has in the history of power delivery has.

Do you even understand the difference between regulated and deregulated power? Clearly you don’t, but I’d love to hear your ridiculous version of what you think that means.

Comical that people think when storms or physical damage happens that a power co can magically still provide power. When your infrastructure is damaged, power goes byebye, period the end, being regulated or grid connected makes zero difference once that happens. Just a talking point for people that don’t understand power distribution and want more government control over everything. My state deregulated power a very long time ago, and it’s saved us a ton of money and gives us choices we wouldnt have before. It in no way changes reliability during storm damage.

Ya, stand with terrorists…sure.

Being separated sucks, but the kids are safer now than she is.

No, I didn’t, and since you clearly can’t quote me doing so, your straw man has failed. Thanks for playing.

Well, let’s see, did I SAY that?

And people wonder why literally nothing is affordable there.

Relevance?

Congrats on being an ignorant twat. So much for your sides obsession with “tolerance and inclusion”.

Wrong, commerce does that, but to do that you need companies investing tons of money upfront, market research, development and a very substantial up front investment or there’s no product to sell, and then no commerce. If money can’t be made either by the companies or the people behind them, theirs no drive to do it.

Where are the socialists standing with their commerce vs capitalism?

China has almost 1.5 BILLION people vs the US’ couple hundred million, so it’s not size or numbers.

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

So is anybody that’s actually sane. I love all the make believe “links” made with the anti-capitalism crowd. Keep in mind those are the same ones that are highly educated, went to good schools, worked their way up the corporate ladder so they could have their big house and nice cars… but against Capitalism LOL. It’s all talk.

Nope, you’re not. That’s a choice. I have no shortage of people using privacy invading messengers, crazy thing, when I send them a SMS/MMS… they get it, like everybody does.

They’re also trying to wiretap the whole thing… pay attention to EVERYTHING that’s in a bill, not just the clickbait stuff you agree with.

I would NEVER willingly use govt healthcare if I had a choice, the US has ALWAYS had govt healthcare which has let our veterans down for decades, and poor and low income people alwmost as long.

On school vouchers, I’m 100% for having a choice of where (my) money gets spent on my kids education. Im fortunate to have a great public school system where I am, but that wasn’t the case for me growing up, shithole inner city schools that failed us all. A voucher system then could have put me in a better school of my parents choice, which existed 3mi from mine, and I would have been assigned there, if I literally lived on the other side of my street.

Our local govts dont want vouchers, because it takes from the teachers unions, which dont like being held accountable for doing thier jobs.

Access to healthcare up there is hardly an unknown thing, very literally the first thing that came up in a Google.

A comprehensive new cross-border study of Canadians and Americans from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds those north of the border dealing with considerably more difficulty in accessing care. This is the first in a three-part series canvassing opinion on access to, quality of, and policy towards health care in Canada.

It finds that over the last six months, two-in-five Canadians (41%) – approximately 12.8 million adults – say they either had a difficult time accessing or were totally unable to access one of five key health services: non-emergency care, emergency care, surgery, diagnostic testing, and specialist appointments.

Americans are much less likely to say they encountered barriers to accessing those services, despite near-identical levels of the population seeking this type of care – 70 per cent in the United States and 74 per cent in Canada.

Asked how confident they feel that they could access urgent care in a timely fashion if a household emergency arises, 37 per cent of Canadians are confident while 61 per cent are not. In the United States, 70 per cent are confident, while one-quarter (25%) are not.

https://angusreid.org/canada-health-care-issues/

The healthcare access has been reported on a bazillion times, documentaries made, their own stats used against the Universal healthcare crying that some in the US want, etc.

Because their taxes aren’t high enough, right? You think they print separate money to give away? Elementary school level math here dude. Like their awesome “free” health care that they come across the border daily and pay cash to avoid? You must not be in a border state.